The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-07-21
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have gone, 1t Is encouraging to note
that there still remain ussurveyed
5000. 900 acres in Colorado, $4,000. 900
in Arizona. nearly 80. 600. 600 in Cali
fornia, 40. 900. 00J in Dakota, 1000, 600
in Florida. $4,000. 600 in Idaho. 7.000.-
900 in Minnesota. so 900. 900 in Nevada,
$4,000, 900 in Montana, 41.000, 000 in
Utah, and more than 10000. 600 in
Washington territory. aggregating
S22. 900. 600 in the states and territories
mentioned.
A contractor engaged on the grading
| at Langshead's coke-works ut Fair
chance, England. is the owner of a
horse which possess the remarkable
growth of flowing mustache on its
upper lip. The animal seems quite
proud of its distinguished feature. and
bites viciously nj anyone who attempts
| to stroke the hirsutc ornament. 1t is
not permitted to put on much style.
however, and is confined to the humble
work of drawing cart like the other
horses.
There is bee disease in Germany
called 'Maikranheit. because it is
usually seen in May. The bees have
distended abdome ns, because they have
not been able to void their feceS, after
partaking of pollen collected in the
early spring after it had been touched
by frost. A good remedy is to put q
little salicylIc acid in syrup and feed it
to them. keeping the hive dry and pre-
venting the accumulation of moisture
inside.
A dust conveyor for thrashers has
been patented BY Mr. Lyman A. Miller,
of Carbondale. Ill. Combined with the
thrashing cyl nder and feed board are a
| fan and fan case with n tube having
its vertical portion provided with in
ward or rearwardly projecting tubes,
extended to conform to the lower
side of the feed board, and then carried
upward and rearward to cause it to
overhang the feed board.
heavy weights, the rams at years OF
age reaching Us high rs four hundred
pounds and ews three hundred. They
are the largest of the mutton breeds.
and yield fleece of medium wool
weighing twenty pounds These
weights are for special individuals that
have been on exhibition. but three
hundred pounds is not an unusual
weight for rams over years old.
Chimney SCOT made from either
wood or coal forms a valuable fertil-
izer. 1t contains large amount OF
ammonia, the coal SCOT more than the
wood. that is always of value to plants
because of the nitrogen it contains.
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fertilizer for house and other small
plants and is easily applied. Given to
roses it will deepen their color num-
ber of shades.
A farmer informs the department of
agriculture that he has evidence lead
ing him to believe that the crows spread
hog cholera. Unless all carcasses be
destroyed by fire, the crows carry
fragments of flesh to distant points.
He states that he has found pieces OF
swine flesh in his fields, apparently
dropped there by crows. which congre-
gate in large numbers in his section.
Spots can be found all over the pine
hills of the southern states as healthy
as any forests in thesworld. Some in
valids are beginning to understand
this fact and profit by it. At least a
million mvalids and wealthy people in
the north and west would winter in
these southern pine hills and on the
gulf shore if they knew the honest
truth about the climate of the southern
states.
r. o. Conant, of Portland. Me-, is
manufacturing a corn press which is
used in corn factories and which will
fill the can with any desired amount in
weight, put in the quantity of water
and press it in, at the rate of two thou
sand cans per hour. He is also manu-
featuring huskingmachine which
will husk seventy-tive bushels of corr
in an hour.
At a special meeting of the Farmers
institute for the county of Ontario
province of Ontario. Canada a resolu
ton declaring in favor of the removal
of all trade restrictions between Can
ada and the United States was carried
unanimously.
A farmer in Ireland, who has beer
experimenting for several years witt
prickly comfrey, declares that 1t is hare
to introduce. hard to exterminate
and the hardest job of all to induce
cattle to eat it.
The use of peat fuel in factories ha
increased so greatly in Russia that
peat-bog has become more valuable
than a well-timbere forest. Man,
manufacturers are giving up the use o
wood for peat.
A French paper says that petro
leum destroys all insects, and banishc
rats and mice, and that water slightl,
impergnated with petroleum applied t.
plants infested with insects will dcs
troy them.
Ducks thrive best with runnin!
stream of water to swim in, yet the,
get along very well with pleanty o
drinking water only, provided there j
enough to supply them with an oc
casional bath.
At the late commencement of tn
Illinois university, from whose nam
the word ''industriar' has been drop
ped, there were no graduates from tn
college of agriculture.
A deposit of fine white marble ha
been dicovered in the western part 0
Texas, on land given by farmers to
railway company to secure the con
construction of road.
An insect resembling the potat
beetle is is producing frightful ravagc
among the orchards near Oswego, N
Y. They eat the leaves and youn
twigs. and destroy the young apples
Among old gardeners there is
great unanimity of opinion that he
manure is the very best fertilizer TO
squashes.
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